Nature Demands Right of Way
Germany is a reminder that climate change is nature’s way of demanding passage, reclaiming its right of way.
Piles of cars on top of each other in German floods, collapsed buildings and crushed steel structures is nature venting its anger for obstructing, its right of way.
It’s a tragedy for us because of loss of lives, but it is pay back time for bleeding nature, we compromised for money. It has come to this because nature finds its back against the wall.
It cannot heal. The wind is blocked by demand for office space, the more floors the better. Buildings like the Burj Khalifa in Dubai are a sign of money power.
We heal, but we do not afford nature the opportunity. I burned myself with a pot lid while cooking three weeks ago. There was a scar. It dried out, fell out on its own and has partially merged into the skin color.
Money does not allow nature to heal because we need more cars, more cellphone chargers, more stilettos and more office space. Ironically, because of computers, working from home and coffee shops, office buildings are half empty. Their construction and ongoing maintenance affects the environment, so we compromised nature for nothing.
Before the floods in Germany and Belgium and the heatwave in B.C. Canada, nature warned us through Covid-19 that death is imminent, if we don’t remove road blocks to its right of way. We are vaccinated so it’s back to our old ways of manufacturing chemicals for bathroom cleaners, face creams to arrest wrinkles, digging, wiring and electrification, all crimes against mother earth.
Climate change vindicates indigenous people and their belief that earth is mother earth, the beginning and end of life. In fact indigenous people in all continents invaded by the Queen of England and G7 countries have that belief.
That’s why they treated nature will respect, and avoided disturbing it in any way. That is backwardness, said colonizers.
This is another ‘written podcast’ by Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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